Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a set of related web pages served from a single web domain. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform resource locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

Types of websites
Websites can be divided into two broad categories - static and interactive. Interactive sites are part of the Web 2.0 community of sites, and allow for interactivity between the site owner and site visitors. Static sites serve or capture information but do not allow engagement with the audience directly. Some web sites are informational or produced by enthusiasts or for personal use or entertainment. Many web sites do aim to make money, using one or more business models, including: Posting interesting content and selling contextual advertising either through direct sales or through an advertising network. E-commerce - products or services are purchased directly through the web site Advertise products or services available at a brick and mortar business Freemium - basic content is available for free but premium content is paid There are many varieties of websites, each specializing in a particular type of content or use, and they may be arbitrarily classified in any number of ways. A few such classifications might include:

Type of Website

Description A site, typically few in pages, whose purpose is to sell a third party's product. The seller receives a commission for facilitating the sale. Enabled portal that renders not only its custom CMS but also syndicated content from other content providers for an agreed fee. There are usually three relationship tiers. Affiliate Agencies Used to preserve valuable electronic content threatened with extinction. Two examples are: Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved billions of old (and new) web pages; and Google Groups, which in early 2005 was archiving over 845,000,000 messages posted to Usenetnews/discussion groups. A site created specifically to attack visitors' computers on their first visit to a website by downloading a file (usually a trojan horse). These websites rely on unsuspecting users with poor anti-virus protection in their computers. Sites generally used to post online diaries which may include discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga). Many bloggers use blogs like an editorial section of a newspaper to express their ideas on anything ranging from politics to religion to video games to parenting, along with anything in between. Some bloggers are professional bloggers and they are paid to blog about a certain subject, and they are usually found on news sites. A site with the purpose of creating an experience of a brand online. These sites usually do not sell anything, but focus on building the brand. Brand building sites are most common for low-value, high-volume fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). A website whose information revolves around a celebrity. This sites can be official (endorsed by the celebrity) or fan made (run by his/her fan, fans, without implicit endorsement).

Examples

Affiliate

Affiliate Agency

(e.g., Commission Junction), Advertisers (e.g., eBay) and consumer (e.g., Yahoo!).

Archive site

Internet Archive, Google Groups

Attack site

Blog (web log)

WordPress

Brand building site

Celebrity website

jimcarrey.com

Click-to-donate site

A website that allows the visitor to donate to charity simply by clicking on a button or answering a question correctly. An advertiser usually donates to the charity for each correct answer generated. A site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards. Sites whose business is the creation and distribution of original content

The Hunger Site, Freerice, Ripple (charitable organisation)

Community site

Myspace, Facebook, orkut

Content site

(e.g., Slate, About.com).

Classified Ads site

Sites publishing classified advertisements

gumtree.com

Corporate website

Used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service. Many of them are pay per services such as eHarmony andMatch.com, but there are many free or partially free dating sites. Most dating sites today have the functionality of social networking websites.

Dating website

A site where users can find other single people looking for long range relationships, dating, or just friends.

Electronic commerce(ecommerce) site Forum website

A site offering goods and services for online sale and enabling online transactions for such sales.

A site where people discuss various topics. A website designed specifically for use as a Gallery, these may be an art gallery or photo gallery and of commercial or non-commercial nature. A website made by the local, state, department or national government of a country. Usually these sites also operate websites that are intended to inform tourists or support tourism. A site devoted to the criticism of a person, place, corporation, government, or institution. A site that lets users play online games. Some enable people to gamble online. Satirizes, parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse. Most websites could fit in this type of website to some extent many of them are not necessarily for commercial purposes A site that enables users to upload and view media such as pictures, music, and videos A website that is the replication of another website. This type of websites are used as a response to spikes in user visitors. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads. A short and simple form of blogging. Microblogs are limited to certain amounts of characters and works similar to a status update on Facebook Similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing news, politics, and commentary. Websites about an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include. Such a personal website is different from a Celebrity website, which can be very expensive and run by a publicist or agency. Twitter RateMyProfessors.com, Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia. Most government, educational and nonprofit institutions have an informational site. Flickr, YouTube, Google Videos

Gallery Website

Government Site

For example, Richmond.com is the geodomain for Richmond, Virginia.

Gripe site

Gaming website Gambling website Humor site Information site

Media sharing site

Mirror site

Microblog site

News site

cnn.com

Personal website

Phishing site

a website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an electronic communication (see Phishing). Websites that index torrent files. This type of website is different from a Bit torrent client which is usually a stand alone software. A site on which people may voice political views, show political humor, campaigning for elections, or show information about a certain political party or ideology. A site that shows sexually explicit content for enjoyment and relaxation. They can be similar to a personal website when it's a website of a porn actor/actress or a media sharing website where user can upload from their own sexually explicit material to movies made by adult studios. Answer site is a site where people can ask questions & get answers. A site on which people can praise or disparage what is featured. A site in which people may advertise a place of worship, or provide inspiration or seek to encourage the faith of a follower of that religion. A site on which people can post reviews for products or services. a site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information about current events at or involving their school. U.S. elementary-high school websites generally use k12 in the URL a site which largely duplicates without permission the content of another site, without actually pretending to be that site, in order to capture some of that site's traffic (especially from search engines) and profit from advertising revenue or in other ways. A website that indexes material on the Internet or an intranet (and lately on traditional media such as books and newspapers)and provides links to information as a response to a query. Includes images or other material that is intended to be offensive to most viewers Web portals used by individuals and organisations to showcase things of interest or value A site where users share other content from the Internet and rate and comment on the content. A site where users could communicate with one another and share media, such as pictures, videos, music, blogs, etc. with other users. These may include games and web applications. A site designed to host or link to materials such as music, movies and software for the user to download. A site that provides a webmail service. A site that provides a starting point or a gateway to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. A site which users collaboratively edit its content. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! msn.com, msnbc.com, yahoo Wikipedia, WikiHow, Wikia StumbleUpon and Digg are examples. Yahoo! Answers, Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow) Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt

p2p/Torrents website

Political site

Porn site

Question and Answer (Q&A) Site Rating site

Religious site

Review site

School site

Scraper site

Search engine site

Google Search, Bing, GoodSearch, DuckDuckGo

Shock site Showcase site Social bookmarkingsite Social networkingsite Warez Webmail Web portal Wiki site

Goatse.cx, rotten.com

Facebook, Orkut, Google+

Some websites may be included in one or more of these categories. For example, a business website may promote the business's products, but may also host informative documents, such aswhite papers. There are also numerous sub-categories to the ones listed above. For example, a porn site is a specific type of e-commerce site or business site (that is, it is trying to sell memberships for access to its site) or have social networking capabilities. A fansite may be a dedication from the owner to a particular celebrity.

Free web hosting service

A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported. Free web hosts will usually provide a subdomain(yoursite.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname). In contrast, paid web hosts will usually provide a second-level domain along with the hosting (www.yourname.com). Many free hosts do allow use of separately-purchased domains. Rarely, a free host may also operate as adomain name registrar. There are also some free domain companies which may provide free third level domain names free with DNS and other facilities.

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